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Any diet or regimen undertaken with any objective short of Special utensils for the dairy meal and different utensils for the restoration of total health of your body is dangerous. Many over- flesh meal reinforce that taboo at the food's source in the kitchen. weight people are undernourished. (Dr H. Curtis Wood stresses Man learned very early in the game what improper combina- this point in his 1971 book, Overfed But Undernourished.) Eating tions of food could do to the human system. When he got a stom- less can aggravate this condition, unless one is concerned with the ach ache from combining raw fruit with grain, or honey with por- quality of the food instead of just its quantity. ridge, he didn't reach for an antacid tablet. He learned not to eat Many people—doctors included—assume that if weight is lost, that way. When gluttony and excess became widespread, reli- fat is lost. This is not necessarily so. Any diet which lumps all gious codes and commandments were invoked against it. carbohydrates together is dangerous. Any diet which does not Gluttony is a capital sin in most religions; but there are no specific consider the quality of carbohydrates and makes the crucial life- religious warnings or commandments against refined sugar and-death distinction between natural, unrefined carbohydrates because sugar abuse—like drug abuse—did not appear on the like whole grains and vegetables and man-refined carbohydrates world scene until centuries after holy books had gone to press. like sugar and white flour is dangerous. Any diet which includes "Why must we accept as normal what we find in a race of sick refined sugar and white flour, no matter what "scientific" name is and weakened human beings?" Dr Herbert M. Shelton asks. applied to them, is dangerous. "Must we always take it for granted that the present eating prac- Kicking sugar and white flour and substituting whole grains, tices of civilized men are normal?... Foul stools, loose stools, vegetables and natural fruits in season, is the core of any sensible impacted stools, pebbly stools, much foul gas, colitis, haemor- natural regimen. Changing the quality of your carbohydrates can rhoids, bleeding with stools, the need for toilet paper are swept change the quality of your health and life. If you eat natural food into the orbit of the normal."* of good quality, quantity tends to take care of itself. Nobody is When starches and complex sugars (like those in honey and going to eat a half-dozen sugar beets or a whole case of sugar fruits) are digested, they are broken down into simple sugars cane. Even if they do, it will be less dangerous than a few ounces called "monosaccharides", which are usable substances—nutri- of sugar. ments. When starches and sugars are taken together and undergo Sugar of all kinds—natural sugars, fermentation, they are broken down such as those in honey and fruit into carbon dioxide, acetic acid, alco- (fructose), as well as the refined hol and water. With the exception of white stuff (sucrose)—tends to arrest Sugars are not digested in the the water, all these are unusable sub- the secretion of gastric juices and stances—poisons. have an inhibiting effect on the stom- mouth, like cereals, or in the When proteins are digested, they ach's natural ability to move. Sugars . . are broken down into amino acids, are not digested PA the mouth, fike stomach, like animal flesh. which are usable substances—nutri- cereals, or in the stomach, like ani- When taken alone, they pass ments. When proteins are taken with mal flesh. When taken alone, the . sugar, they putrefy; they are broken pass quickly through the stomach quickly through the stomach down into a variety of ptomaines and into the small intestine. When sugars into the small intestine. leucomaines, which are nonusable are eaten with other foods—perhaps meat and bread in a sandwich—they are held up in the stomach for a pares them for use by our body. while. The sugar in the bread and the Bacterial decomposition makes them Coke sit there with the hamburger and the bun waiting for them to unfit for use by our body. The first process gives us nutriments; be digested. While the stomach is working on the animal protein _ the second gives us poisons. substances—poisons. Enzymic digestion of foods pre- and the refined starch in the bread, the addition of the sugar prac- Much that passes for modern nutrition is obsessed with a mania tically guarantees rapid acid fermentation under the conditions of for quantitative counting. The body is treated like a cheque warmth and moisture existing in the stomach. account. Deposit calories (like dollars) and withdraw energy. One lump of sugar in your coffee after a sandwich is enough to Deposit proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals—bal- turn your stomach into a fermenter. One soda with a hamburger —_ anced quantitatively—and the result, theoretically, is a healthy is enough to turn your stomach into a still. Sugar on cereal— body. People qualify as healthy today if they can crawl out of whether you buy it already sugared in a box or add it yourself— _ bed, get to the office and sign in. If they can't make it, call the almost guarantees acid fermentation. doctor to qualify for sick pay, hospitalisation, rest cure—anything Since the beginning of time, natural laws were observed, in from a day's pay without working to an artificial kidney, courtesy both senses of that word, when it came to eating foods in combi- of the taxpayers. nation. Birds have been observed eating insects at one period in But what doth it profit someone if the theoretically required the day and seeds at another. Other animals tend to eat one food calories and nutrients are consumed daily, yet this random eat-on- at atime. Flesh-eating animals take their protein raw and straight. the-run, snack-time collection of foods ferments and putrefies in In the Orient, it is traditional to eat yang before yin. Miso soup the digestive tract? What good is it if the body is fed protein, only (fermented soybean protein, yang) for breakfast; raw fish (more to have it putrefy in the gastrointestinal canal? Carbohydrates that yang protein) at the beginning of the meal; afterwards comes the ferment in the digestive tract are converted into alcohol and acetic rice (which is less yang than the miso and fish); and then the veg- acid, not digestible monosaccharides. etables which are yin. If you ever eat with a traditional Japanese "To derive sustenance from foods eaten, they must be digest- family and you violate this order, the Orientals (if your friends) ed," Shelton warned years ago. "They must not rot." will correct you courteously but firmly. Sure, the body can get rid of poisons through the urine and the The law observed by Orthodox Jews prohibits many combina- pores; the amount of poisons in the urine is taken as an index to tions at the same meal, especially flesh and dairy products. what's going on in the intestine. The body does establish a Sugars are not digested in the mouth, like cereals, or in the stomach, like animal flesh. When taken alone, they pass quickly through the stomach into the small intestine. NEXUS - 23 DECEMBER 1999 — JANUARY 2000